at you—the finest thing up to now that has found its way on to this old planet, in order to realize that he's right up against it."
He knew his own mind and she didn't know hers. Such a man was terribly hard to resist.
"He says any morning at twelve. I suggest tomorrow."
"You insist?" She was struggling helplessly in meshes of her own weaving.
"I insist. And my last word is that if you let the old beast down us, as of course he'll try to do, I go back to B. C. and remain a single man to the end of my days. And I'm not out for that, as long as there is half a chance of something better. So that's that." In the style of the great lover he laid a hand on each shoulder, looked into the troubled eyes and kissed her. "And now, if you please, we will witch the world with noble horsemanship."
